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Matthew 6: 30God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. He will surely do even more for you! Why do you have such little faith? (CEV)
Matthew 13: 44The kingdom of heaven is like what happens when someone finds treasure hidden in a field and buries it again. A person like that is happy and goes and sells everything in order to buy that field. (CEV)
John 1: 14The Word became a human being and lived here with us. We saw his true glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father. From him all the kindness and all the truth of God have come down to us.... 17The Law was given by Moses, but Jesus Christ brought us undeserved kindness and truth. (CEV)
John 3: 21But everyone who lives by the truth will come to the light, because they want others to know that God is really the one doing what they do. (CEV)
John 8: 32You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (CEV)
John 16: 13The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you into the full truth. (CEV)
Romans 1: 18From heaven God shows how angry he is with all the wicked and evil things that sinful people do to crush the truth. 19They know everything that can be known about God, because God has shown it all to them. 20God's eternal power and character cannot be seen. But from the beginning of creation, God has shown what these are like by all he has made. (CEV)
Romans 14: 17God's kingdom isn't about eating and drinking. It is about pleasing God, about living in peace, and about true happiness. All this comes from the Holy Spirit. (CEV)
Philippians 4: 8Finally, my friends, keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don't ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise. (CEV)
2 Peter 1: 19All of this makes us even more certain that what the prophets said is true. So you should pay close attention to their message, as you would to a lamp shining in some dark place. You must keep on paying attention until daylight comes and the morning star rises in your hearts. (CEV)
1 Peter 3: 10"Do you really love life? Do you want to be happy? Then stop saying cruel things and quit telling lies. (CEV)
1. Why Is God angry with all people who want to crush the truth that
He plainly reveals in Creation?
2. What does Jesus bring down to us from Heaven and God that leaders
need more than anything?
3. How does the beauty of growing things prove that God cares for us
in all the details of our lives?
4. When we keep our minds on everything that is true and worthwhile,
how does this help us lead?
5. Tell who it is that will be set free from all evil by the truth
and then made truly happy.
Please study the above references and then add your observations
and applications:
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Philippians 4: 6Don't worry about anything, but pray about everything. With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God. (CEV)
What Did Jesus Teach About Truth, Beauty, and Joy?
Jesus came to reveal truth, beauty, and joy. All these had been missed
and misunderstood since the Creation of the world. Jesus was with God in
the beginning: "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was
made that has been made." With regard to eternal life and spiritual truth
John said, "In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light
shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." (John
1:3-5, NIV)
John's biography of Jesus reveals the tremendous
battle that Jesus had with the religious and political authorities over
the beauty and value of God's truth and God's will. Jesus told them plainly,
"I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only
what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son
also does... (John 5:19, NIV)
"For the very work that the Father has given me
to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me...
You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, nor does his word dwell
in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. You diligently study the
Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These
are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me
to have life... "I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts...
How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no
effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God? (John
5:36-44, NIV)
Jesus also told them, "If anyone chooses to do God's
will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I
speak on my own. He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself,
but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth;
there is nothing false about him." (John 7:16-18, NIV)
Jesus' told the people, "If you hold to my teaching,
you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth
will set you free." .... To those who wanted to put Him to death, He said,
"Yet because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me!... The reason
you do not hear is that you do not belong to God." (John
8:31-32, 45-47, NIV)
(Modified from pages 243-248, chap 13, "The Leadership Principles
of Jesus"
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